are you now in depths

Are you now in depths of sorrow,

where no arm can reach so low?

There is One whose arms almighty

reach beyond your deepest woe.

God the Eternal is your refuge.

Let it still your wild alarms;

underneath your deepest sorrow

are the everlasting arms.




Other arms grow faint and weary,

these can never faint nor fail:

others reach our mounts of blessing,

these our lowest, loneliest vale.

Oh, that all might know His friendship!

Oh, that all might see His charms!

Oh, that all might have beneath them

Jesus‟ everlasting arms!




Underneath us, oh, how easy!

We have not to mount on high,

but to sink into His fullness,

and in trustful weakness lie.

And we find our humbling failures

save us from the strength that harms,

we may fail, but underneath us

are the everlasting arms.




Arms of Jesus! fold me closer

to Thy strong and loving breast,

till my spirit on Thy bosom

finds its everlasting rest;

and when time‟s last sands are sinking,

shield my heart from all alarms